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People really didn't change very much, he thought; they only decayed.

I would guess that he thought and thought for at least ten years before he came up with a stupendous idea, that glory of man's inventiveness, pants.

Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it's taboo in social intercourse.

People may make fun of me because I'm wearing something odd, but it's still good to be alive.

I'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow.

Where joy grows deep, sorrow must deepen; the greater one's pleasures, the greater the pain.

Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.

The plain fact is that humans, one and all, are merely thieves at heart.

If whiskers establish sauciness, every cat is impudent.

Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head.

Had I the time to keep a diary, I'd use that time to better effect; sleeping on the veranda.

Tea is, in fact, a marvelous drink. To those who spurn it on the grounds of insomnia, I say that it's better to be deprived of sleep than of tea.

A world where falling in love requires marrying is a world where novels require reading from beginning to end.

The memory of having sat at someone's feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot.

People forget their faces when they're busy.

Anyone who sang the praises of undying love in this day and age belonged to the first rank of hypocrites in Daisuke's estimate.

The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.

The poet has an obligation to dissect his own corpse and reveal the symptoms of its illness to the world.

The autumn leaves, arranged in two or three scarlet terraces among the pine-trees, have fallen like ancient dreams.

It's a shame that an education just gives people the means to chop logic

It's so unrewarding, being a woman.

How deep, how recondite this seeming petty heart,
In whose recesses right and wrong lie dimmed by distance.

His grin seemed to say, "It is, for some strange reason, considered proper to congratulate people on such occasions as this.

We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.

And men who accept the burdens of regret, whether in respect of watercolors or of anything else, are not the stuff that men of the world are made of.

I am a cat. As yet I have no name

I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.

Of all the tribulations in this world, boredom is the one most hard to bear.

He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought?

To be able to muster so many complaints about one little thing - yes, you'll get ahead, that's for sure.

But to my questions he gave replies so vague that one could not tell whether they came from the mountains or the sea.

You have a fine scholar's way with words, I must say. You're good at empty reasoning.

No matter how full one's head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was a worthy man first.

Secretiveness is a most mysterious matter. However well one guards a secret, sooner or later it's bound to come out.

Anyone without spiritual aspirations is a fool

Into the field of
Yellow flowers
The red setting sun!

The trouble with women is that they talk too much. It would be good if human beings would keep as silent as this cat.

From then on, my thesis hung over me like a curse, and with bloodshot eyes, I worked like a madman.

My hand may slip from lack of practice, but I do not believe my clumsy writing derives from an agitated mind.

You'd better watch out - life can be dangerous.

But sick or well, humans are fragile creatures, you know. There's no anticipating how or when they might die, or for what reason

Age should never meddle with such a matter. Mind your own business.

Our hearts parted a long time ago, and I was wrong to think they could be brought together again.

To be as comfortably off as you are is, after all, the best way to be.

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

You must not speak ill of other persons. After all, everyone dies when their allotted span is over.

Under the sun the couple presented smiles to the world. Under the moon, they were lost in thought: and so they had quietly passed the years.

Men works by preference, not by logic.

Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them ... A life without conclusions is painful.

I am not as hard as I seem. For the right person, I too could shed a few tears.

Until then I had floated at random, like a rootless aquatic plant, relying entirely on the opinions of others.

On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

But when luck is running against one, nothing goes well.